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ANOTHER SOUND OF THE CITY CHAT ROOM EXCLUSIVE! We have no idea how these dudes do this, but iVoice correspondent Jon Bois hacked into an IM conversation between Michael Jackson and collaborator will.i.am back during the retrofitting of Thriller for i...

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Juanes: Does 'influential' have to mean 'boring'?
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Madison Square Garden
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Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (Merge)
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Justice
SONG OF THE YEAR
The National, "Fake Empire" (Beggars Banquet)
AMERICANA ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Iron & Wine, The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)
INDIE ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Anim...

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Yeasayer's clearly having a little van trouble.
photo by Doron Gild
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El Perro Del Mar: Her name is Sarah Assbring.
Hugs and Kisses?
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You'll have to excuse me. Been up all evening doing Plan B accounts. Not much of an occupati...

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Batman beat the hell out of me
And knocked me to the floor
I got back up and knocked him to the floor
He was bein' such a jackoaf
Not jackoff: jackoaf. Jack oaf. An important distinction. (It meant a great deal to me at 19, in any event.)
We all h...

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Young Jeezy's prophetic "My President" hit websites on August 20, slightly more than two months after Hillary Clinton gave way to Barack Obama as her party's nominee and five days before Denver's 2008 Democratic National Convention made it official....

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A few days after Tha Carter III leaked, Lil Wayne ambled onstage at Giants Stadium looking like he only had the vaguest sense of where he was, half-consciously staring at his feet while "A Milli" thudded and a few tens of thousands of teenagers lost...